The present youth molestation news coming out of an off-shoot Mormon cult goes back to over-sexed Joseph Smith, founder, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints.

It was Smith who said there are disembodied spirits crying out for bodies. Therefore, the more females have babies, the more these spirits find housing.

That means a man should get as many females pregnant as possible in order to please God.

Smith, of course, was evil. He was grossly wicked.

Though present-day Mormons with headquarters in Salt Lake City disavow polygamy, they would practice it if it had not been outlawed by the US government.

Bottom-line: what is going on now in too many Mormon off-shoot cultic clusters goes back to the Mormon starter—the overly lustful Joseph Smith, regarded by the Salt Lake City headquarters as well as off-shoots as a man of God.

No wonder Ann Coulter refers to the Mormons as a “wacky religion.”

No wonder Christendom refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with head office in Salt Lake City as a cult, along with Christian Science and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

It is still amazing what devilment one mortal can set loose for generations upon generations.